Five days later, can’t get data from arduino

Hey  guys, I am going insane and could really use help!

I’m using a little omnidirectional mic as my “sensor” and am trying to throw these readings into a spreadsheet.

The arduino printouts show “meaningful” values. As in, I get a value that makes sense; if it’s quiet, it’s one number, and if I make noise, the number goes up.

However, when it gets to processing, I get this pattern of numbers that just repeats, regardless of what goes on and numbers that don’t match Arduino. Is this because of the kinds of packets of info I am getting from Arduino? I’m going CRAZY!

 

Please help if yall have any ideas!

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ARDUINO

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int sensorPin = 2;
float val = 0;

void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop(){
val = analogRead(sensorPin)/4.0;
Serial.print(val,BYTE);
delay(100);

}

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PROCESSING

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import processing.serial.*;
import com.google.gdata.client.spreadsheet.*;
import com.google.gdata.data.*;
import com.google.gdata.data.spreadsheet.*;
import com.google.gdata.util.*;

// Variables structures for google spreadsheet API
SpreadsheetService service;  //Holds link to all your spreadsheets
WorksheetEntry worksheet;  //Holds link to the sensor log spreadsheet
String uname = “breegeek@gmail.com”;  //Your google account user name
String pwd = “BBBBBBBBBBBBB”;  //Your google account password
String spreadsheet_name = “sensor log”;  //Name of the spreadsheet you want to write data to.  Must match exactly, including case.
int spreadsheet_idx = 0; //Index for the “sensor log spreadsheet

//Variables for writing sensor data
Serial port;  // Create object from Serial class
int oldTime;  //timer variable
int reportingInterval = 2000;  //Number of miliiseconds between when sensor data is recorded

// Sends the data to the spreadsheet
void transmitData(float val) {
String date = day() + “/” + month() + “/” + year();  //Build the current date
String time = hour() + “:” + minute() + “:” + second(); //Build the current time
try {
//Create a new row with the name value pairs
ListEntry newEntry = new ListEntry();
newEntry.getCustomElements().setValueLocal(“date”, date);
newEntry.getCustomElements().setValueLocal(“time”, time);
newEntry.getCustomElements().setValueLocal(“reading”, Float.toString(val));
//Write it out to the google doc
URL listFeedUrl = worksheet.getListFeedUrl();
ListEntry insertedRow = service.insert(listFeedUrl, newEntry);
} catch (Exception e) {
println(e.getStackTrace());
}
}

float val = 0;
void setup() {
size(950,600);
//Set up the serial port to read data
//This code comes from example 11-8 of Getting Started with Processing
String arduinoPort = Serial.list()[0];
port = new Serial(this, arduinoPort, 9600);
oldTime = millis();
//Set up the google spreadsheet
service = new SpreadsheetService(“test”);
try {
service.setUserCredentials(uname,  pwd);
// Search for the spreadsheet named we’re looking for
// Note that according to the documentation you should be able to include the key in the URL, but I
// was unable to get this to work.  It looked like there was a bug report in.
// As a work around, this code pulls a list of all the Spreadheets in your acocunt and searches for the
// one with the matching name.  When it finds it, it breaks out of the loop and the index is set
URL feedURL = new URL(“http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full/”);
SpreadsheetFeed feed = service.getFeed(feedURL, SpreadsheetFeed.class);
for (SpreadsheetEntry entry: feed.getEntries()) {
if (entry.getTitle().getPlainText().equals(spreadsheet_name) ) {
break;
}
spreadsheet_idx += 1;
}
//Fetch the correct spreadsheet
SpreadsheetEntry se = feed.getEntries().get(spreadsheet_idx); //Fetch the spreadsheet we want
worksheet = se.getWorksheets().get(0);  //Fetch the first worksheet from that spreadsheet
println(“Found worksheet ” + se.getTitle().getPlainText());

} catch (Exception e) {
println(e.toString());
}
}

//Reads the port everye few seconds and sends the data back to Google
void draw() {
delay(100);
if (port.available() > 0) { // If data is available,
val = port.read();        // read it and store it in val
}
//Determine if we need to report the level
val = map( val, 0, 255, 0, height);

if ((millis() – oldTime) > reportingInterval) {
oldTime = millis();
transmitData(val);
}

println(val);
}